ABC’s stunning announcement Tuesday that it’s canceling the network’s hit revival of “Roseanne” – in the wake of the sitcom’s star and co-creator Roseanne Barr’s even more stunningly racist tweet aimed at Valerie Jarrett, a former adviser to ex-president Barack Obama – should not have too much of an impact on Southern California’s booming television and film production community.

Indeed, the only person who might face long-term unemployment is Barr herself, who was also unceremoniously dropped by her talent agency ICM in the wake of the scandal.

But even that’s not for sure.

“I applaud ABC for doing the right thing, and not necessarily the right financial thing,” noted Ray Richmond, who’s served as television critic for the Los Angeles Daily News, Orange County Register and the trade papers Variety and Hollywood Reporter. “They’re losing money over this, but I guess they kind of had to. But because this is Hollywood and because of the craven profit factor that drives everything in entertainment, I would be surprised if another network doesn’t pick [the series] up.

“I hope that this is a fatal blow for her in terms of you can’t just throw racist crap out anymore or there are consequences,” Richmond continued. “But, especially knowing the audience that is out there waiting for it, I’d be surprised/shocked if another network doesn’t pick up production.”

By audience, Richmond refers to presumed conservatives who liked how Trump supporter Barr’s reboot focused on the white working class struggles that many pundits believe helped elect the current president. The first new episode garnered unusually high ratings for a network show in this Balkanized TV era and continued to dominate through its nine-episode spring season – earning ABC, according to the Associated Press, $45 million in ad revenue – while giving voice to its star’s conservative beliefs as well as other characters’ opposite ones.

Her fans may be waiting a long time, though. Carsey-Werner, the Encino-based production company that has made “Roseanne,” released only one statement about the situation. It doesn’t make it sound like they’ll be shopping the show around anytime soon.

“I support ABC’s decision to cancel the show in the wake of Roseanne Barr’s most recent reprehensible tweets,” the company’s executive and “Roseanne’s” executive producer Tom Werner stated. “”Our goal was to promote constructive discussion about the issues that divide us. It represented the work of hundreds of talented people. I hope the good work done is not totally eclipsed by these abhorrent and offensive comments, and that Roseanne seeks the help she so clearly needs.”

Richmond estimated that the 13-episode second season of the new “Roseanne,” which ABC had already ordered, would have been a well-funded priority that might employ 150 to 200 people. A call to CBS Radford Studio Center in Studio City, where the show’s interiors were shot, was answered by a late shift worker on Stage 15 who was locking up the otherwise empty production office mid-afternoon Tuesday.

Still, some agree with Richmond that the show could go on.

“Just because ABC canceled doesn’t mean the series will be canceled,” Christopher Thornberg, founding partner of the local economic consulting firm Beacon Economics, reckoned. “There may be plenty of folks who’ll pick it up, do it on Netflix or, I don’t know, Trumpflix; I can see Fox picking this up in a heartbeat.”

Even if it’s not, Thornberg doubted “Roseanne’s” innocent crewmembers and other creatives would be without work for long, what with local soundstages booked to capacity and streaming services adding more and more new shows seemingly every week.

“If they actually don’t produce, trust me, somebody else is going to step into that timeslot immediately because they desperately need the [soundstage] space,” Thornberg pointed out. “They might not hire the exact same people, but they’ll have the same number of jobs. My point is, shows get canceled and shows get added constantly, and this is just part of the swirl. In this labor market, where Los Angeles unemployment is at a record low level and soundstages are booked up for months on end, none of these people are going to suffer.

“With the exception of Roseanne Barr,” Thornberg cracked. “Otherwise, it’s not going to have an impact on the economy.”

Bob Straus has been covering film at the L.A. Daily News since 1989. He wouldn't say the movies have gotten worse in that time, but they do keep getting harder to love. Fortunately, he still loves them.